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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Glory to God

Ever have trouble getting those creative juices flowing - try a challenge or two. Works for me every time! This card turned out so nice I'll adapt it for sale. (My apologies for the blurry picture. Had to use my iTouch in order for the ribbon to show up in it's true red form. p.s. the ribbon is made of metallic threads which is difficult to photograph.)

Selma's Technique is to ink the flat side of an embossing folder not the raised pattern. Thus when you emboss the card stock the raised pattern remains white or whatever color your card stock is. I used the Holly with Berries e.f. and inked it with Desert Sand. On top of the e.f. I've taped a fancy frame template, which leaves an unembossed area on the card stock, perfect stamping your sentiment. Then I spritzed a bit of Perfect Pearls Mists-Forever Green across the top portion for some shimmer and a bit of contrast. I used 2 QK dies to cut the holly leaves from grunge board. Which had been painted at least 3 times with peeled paint stain, to get a nice dark green when dried. My holly berries are sugared and plain red brads. The senitment embossed in gold is from the Heartfelt Creations' Joyous Noel stamp set. The focal image piece was layered onto tan and green striped dp from GCD Studios' Joyful Peace collection. Then all was mounted to a piece of Prismatic shimmer brown card stock. My card is 5.5" x 5.5", a rare square from me!

8 comments:

Ooh this card makes me ready for the holiday season. Truly gorgeous and I just love the ribbon, the embossing, and the lovely sentiment. Thanks for sharing your creation with us this week at Papercraft Star! I hope you'll play along with us again soon!